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3 hours ago, BamaATL said:

About 20 years ago I worked with a company that had an job placement deal with a firm that represented MLB players union.  Mind you, many of these guys didn't make the millions most all these guys do now.  To say that they were clueless and lost would be a bit of an understatement.  I do have to imagine that after spending your whole life being told how great you are, then to suddenly have that gone, would be tough.  The ultimate problem for most them was that they aren't grounded in any sort of reality beyond baseball.  No experience = CEO in 6 months!  I walked away from that with the impression that many of these guys are functionally illiterate.  

Counterpoint: I gotta stick up for the college baseball players I taught. They were smarter than the average Freshman mouth-breather, quick with a joke, scored high on the subject matter. But I've had multiple concussions so who knows.

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2 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Counterpoint: I gotta stick up for the college baseball players I taught. They were smarter than the average Freshman mouth-breather, quick with a joke, scored high on the subject matter. But I've had multiple concussions so who knows.

It's probably a pretty mixed bag now.  Given the time period (guys with careers in the 80s and early 90s), most of the players likely never spent a day on a college campus, which is considerably different than today.  

regardless of these dipshit guys that sprung this convo, i will note that most baseball players i have encountered in years of playing and otherwise have been absolute neanderthal morons.

exception to that was chris carmichael was in all my upper division econ classes at ut with me and he was a pretty sharp dude. and he jacked a monster 3 run hr to seal the deal for the 2002 national championship game so he's cool.

6 hours ago, Mdhorn said:

You're doing that logic thing again.  They exclude facts, science and logic since they don't help their narratives.  Remember, every accusation is a confession. 

Play to that thought process.  Tell all of your MAGA relatives how a Trump administration is going to work to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and redirect the money to the military, because too many old people are leeches on society and too many illegals are collecting Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid, and God bless our soldiers (the non-woke ones) and then send them clips of speeches from all of the Republicans who want to cut those programs.  Tell them to show up in November if they care about our military and care about cutting back on welfare programs like Social Security and Medicare,

6 hours ago, C-Man said:

I love this "least qualified" thing that gets bandied about WRT to Kamala Harris. Let's talk about "least qualified" for a second. Kamala went to law school and got her degree. She passed the BAR. She was an Attorney General and US Senator from California. Contrast that to her opponent -- inherited $400M from his dad and blew it all. Has bankrupted at least six businesses. Reinvented himself as a reality TV star. Serial cheater, convicted felon, business/tax cheat and so on and so forth.

The other side can take "least qualified" and shove it straight up their asses.

She was also vice-president for four years. It's like when Hillary was called unqualified, running against a former reality show star (first lady, senator, Sec of State). It's like there's a common theme or something.

Why is Trump qualified?  He already had the job once.  Got fired.

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This baseball players are idiots is tough to read. I played baseball in college. And I are smarter than y’all is, by leeps and bonds.

38 minutes ago, Homesickhorn said:

This baseball players are idiots is tough to read. I played baseball in college. And I are smarter than y’all is, by leeps and bonds.

I knowed you wuz. I tolt em so, but they's all uppity.

38 minutes ago, Homesickhorn said:

This baseball players are idiots is tough to read. I played baseball in college. And I are smarter than y’all is, by leeps and bonds.

Fer sure.

6 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

it's also a very, very boring sport.

Yeah, if you’re a simpleton. 

12 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I love baseball, but the players are mostly not very smart. I would bet they go about 70/30 maga

I had a great conversation with the Director of Major League Operations for the Mets at dinner one night. She echoed that sentiment. Dumb with zero social awareness was the takeaway.

On 7/20/2024 at 4:26 PM, tx 3 putt said:

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This is how you grift. Striking image that cult members want. About 12-13 distinct colors so you can easily do color separations by hand, knock out a few hundred prints in a few days, enough to fill the pre-orders at say $300 apiece, say gross about 60K in a week or so, knock off 2 thou for racker monkeys (tops), 4 thou for postage, and a few hundred for inks and archival paper. Call it 50K profit even if you only sell 200. Easier than printing money.

How a maga civil war begins/ends in about 10 seconds ….

 

15 hours ago, Mdhorn said:

You're doing that logic thing again.  They exclude facts, science and logic since they don't help their narratives.  Remember, every accusation is a confession. 

You're talking about Trump's base.  They aren't the target audience.

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On 7/22/2024 at 8:52 AM, Biff Tannen said:

I've mentioned it on this site somewhere in the past, but for about a month when my wife went to grad school, I worked at a company in Dallas that was borderline fraudulent, selling online advertising space.  There were multiple ex-Texas and other college baseball players working there.  If you've ever seen the Telemarketers documentary on HBO, it was basically the same thing.

These are not good and not smart people.

Multiview?

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I can’t say this loud enough , Fuck the Cardinals !!!!!

 

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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

Newsmax going to Newsmax …..

 

So Newsmax is trying to convince me to vote for her?  It's working.

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Holy fuck

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna161444

The law enforcement officer spent months methodically gathering evidence. He leafed through thousands of pages and highlighted key passages amid reams and reams of paper. He wore his body camera to record his interactions with witnesses and suspects. And he photographed what he saw as instruments of the alleged crime:

Books.


The targets of the investigation? Three school librarians in Granbury, Texas. The allegation? They had allowed children to access literature — such as “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison — that the officer, Scott London, a chief deputy constable, had deemed obscene.

In an extraordinary look into the ramifications of the right-wing backlash against books dealing with racism, gender, sex and sexuality, an 824-page investigative file obtained by NBC News and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth shows how, for two years, London vigorously pursued felony charges against librarians in the Granbury Independent School District.

London secured subpoenas, filed public records requests, received names of students who’d checked out certain books and, after a year, wrote draft criminal complaints.

Senior deputy constable Scott London.
London pushed for third-degree felony charges against three school librarians, which could have carried a penalty of two to 10 years in prison and fines up to $10,000.NBC Dallas Fort Worth
Those charges — distributing harmful material to a minor — were never filed. The investigation came to an end in June after Hood County District Attorney Ryan Sinclair turned down London’s request to indict the librarians, citing a lack of conclusive evidence to charge them with felonies.


Sinclair declined to be interviewed and did not respond to written questions. London, who has ties to the anti-government constitutional sheriff’s movement and tried to launch a local chapter of the far-right Oath Keepers militia in 2020, did not respond to questions.

NBC News is not naming the three librarians because they were never charged with a crime. None of them agreed to be interviewed. Granbury Superintendent Jeremy Glenn declined to comment. The district released a statement saying officials looked forward to putting the matter behind them.

“Granbury ISD respects the due diligence of the district attorney and wholeheartedly agrees that this investigation was without merit,” it said.

London’s investigative file offers the most detailed and visceral picture to date of an attempt to prosecute librarians amid the nationwide campaign by conservatives to restrict children’s access to books depicting sex and LGBTQ people.


As London was conducting his probe, at least 18 states considered bills to make it easier to prosecute librarians over contested books, and three — Missouri, Indiana and Arkansas — passed them into law, although Arkansas’ is on hold pending a lawsuit filed by a group of libraries. Police and sheriff’s deputies have been called by parents and right-wing activists to investigate library books in Florida, Missouri, South Carolina and elsewhere, but free speech advocates and librarian organizations say they are unaware of any librarian or school official who has been charged over books.

“It’s as if books have become contraband, and it’s just so alarming,” said Kasey Meehan, who leads a freedom to read campaign at PEN America, a free speech nonprofit.

A series of videos captured by London’s body-worn camera in May 2022 show him striding through school hallways, interviewing administrators and perusing library shelves in search of the offending books.

In one video, a middle school librarian leans over a book check-out counter, her hands folded at her mouth, as London lays out the legal basis for his investigation. On the wall behind the librarian are colorful decorations and a quote from Dr. Seuss: “The more things you read, the more things you will know.”

“There’s been an allegation of books that were in conflict of the penal code in the library,” London tells the librarian, “and so that’s what I’m looking into.”

London says he has some questions, but under the Fifth Amendment, the librarian is not obligated to answer them.

“I really don’t want to at the moment,” she says, shaking her head.

In another video, London lays out several books on a library table and photographs their covers and copyright pages — logging each as evidence of a potential crime.

Body cam footage from senior deputy constable Scott London photographing library books as part of his investigation
London photographed copies of several library books, including "The Bluest Eye," which he deemed to be obscene.Hood County Constable, Precinct 4
Adam Steinbaugh, a lawyer for the civil liberties nonprofit the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, said the Granbury investigation stands out from other cases he’s tracked. Steinbaugh obtained a copy of London’s investigative file through a public records request.

This was the first time, he said, that his organization had seen a law enforcement official issue subpoenas and receive records showing how often books had been checked out and by whom, and the first time he’d seen an officer draft criminal complaints against librarians. Watching police body camera footage of school librarians being confronted by an investigator was deeply unsettling, Steinbaugh said.

“Anytime you’re talking about arresting a librarian for the content of books in a library, that’s going to have a chilling effect,” he said. “Why be a librarian? Why take the, frankly, little pay that librarians, especially school librarians, get, and risk going to prison?”

Granbury’s battle over school library books began in early 2022. That January, Glenn, Granbury’s superintendent, directed librarians to remove books that contained descriptions of sex and LGBTQ storylines, according to a secret recording obtained by NBC News, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. The district later appointed a panel of community volunteers to review dozens of books that a Republican state legislator had flagged as inappropriate.

In the end, the committee members voted to permanently ban just three of the titles, including “This Book Is Gay,” a coming-out guide for LGBTQ teens by transgender author Juno Dawson that includes detailed descriptions of sex, and returned the others to shelves.

The decision outraged a pair of conservative Christian parents who served on the review committee — a homeschooling mother named Monica Brown and Karen Lowery, who was later elected to Granbury’s school board.

Stills from Monica Brown's appearances at Granbury ISD school board meetings on April 25, May 16, June 2, and July 18, in Granbury, Texas.
Homeschooling mother Monica Brown spent months speaking out about school library books before co-filing the criminal complaint that launched London's investigation.Granbury ISD, NBC News
On May 2, 2022, according to a case summary included in London’s investigative file, Brown and Lowery brought their concerns about “pornography” in school libraries to him. They filed a complaint naming 11 allegedly obscene books that they said could be found in Granbury school libraries. The titles, all of which contained passages about sex or rape, included a popular teen fantasy series by Sarah J. Maas and a pair of books by the acclaimed young adult author Tiffany D. Jackson.

The idea that school librarians had been handing out pornography in a town like Granbury — where many folks identify as conservative Christians and 80% of county residents voted for Donald Trump in 2020 — seemed far-fetched to some locals, but London committed himself to investigating.


In an interview with NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth that aired last year, London said the probe was simply a response to the complaint from Lowery and Brown and not driven by his own views.

“If a crime is reported to any law enforcement agency, I would expect the law enforcement agency to investigate the crime,” he said.

Lowery, however, said in an email to reporters last year that it was London who asked if she and Brown would file the complaint after he heard them speak about library books at a local Republican club.

“Monica and I agreed to do so believing we should support law enforcement,” Lowery wrote to NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth.


A day after taking their complaint, London made his first visits to Granbury’s administrative offices, and later that week to Granbury High School and a pair of middle schools.
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So he’s 100% into child pron and should be investigated immediately. Got it. Not even kidding. 

So he’s 100% into child pron and should be investigated immediately. Got it. Not even kidding. 

This story is absolutely insane

Anyone know what they plan to impeach Harris for?  Brown?  Vagina?  Other?

Conspiracy to keep Biden’s condition a secret from voters.  

3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Anyone know what they plan to impeach Harris for?  Brown?  Vagina?  Other?

Beaver?  I mean, you know the guy?

6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Anyone know what they plan to impeach Harris for?  Brown?  Vagina?  Other?

Lying. It’s apparently a high crime for the vp to lie, and easy to prove lies. 

plan?


1. Push Harris to remove Biden. Or convince Biden to resign

2. impeach Harris.

3. President Mike Johnson

4. profit?

7 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

plan?


1. Push Harris to remove Biden. Or convince Biden to resign

2. impeach Harris.

3. President Mike Johnson

4. profit?

Ha, I guarantee that has at least crossed their stupid minds.

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Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.

 

Wadsack is one of the batshit state leg representatives here.

6 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

Wadsack is one of the batshit state leg representatives here.

Wadsack.  Think about that for a minute.

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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Wadsack.  Think about that for a minute.

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nsiap

 

24 minutes ago, elfenix said:

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Good

4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Wadsack.  Think about that for a minute.

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10/10 she would bite your dick off

5 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Wadsack.  Think about that for a minute.

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Mortician has let herself go.

1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

Mortician has let herself go.

nah, they're the same as they ever were

 

7 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Wadsack.  Think about that for a minute.

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I haven't seen Eric Wareheim in this skit yet

 

7 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Wadsack.  Think about that for a minute.

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Not even for a $100k. 

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2 hours ago, Underdog said:

Not even for a $100k. 

That's tough to turn down for 30 to 45 seconds of work.  

10 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.

 

I had the biggest crush on him and Axl Rose back in the day. Love that both of them hate Trump.

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